1989 Academy Awards® Winners and History My Left Foot (1989, UK) Actor: DANIEL DAY-LEWIS in "My Left Foot", Kenneth Branagh in "Henry V", Tom Cruise in "Born on the Fourth of July", Morgan Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy", Robin Williams in "Dead Poets Society" Actress: JESSICA TANDY in "Driving Miss Daisy", Isabelle Adjani in "Camille Claudel", Pauline Collins in "Shirley Valentine", Jessica Lange in "Music Box", Michelle Pfeiffer in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" Supporting Actor: DENZEL WASHINGTON in "Glory", Danny Aiello in "Do the Right Thing", Dan Aykroyd in "Driving Miss Daisy", Marlon Brando in "A Dry White Season", Martin Landau in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" Supporting Actress: BRENDA FRICKER in "My Left Foot", Anjelica Huston in "Enemies: a Love Story", Lena Olin in "Enemies: a Love Story", Julia Roberts in "Steel Magnolias", Dianne Wiest in "Parenthood" Director: OLIVER STONE for "Born on the Fourth of July

", Woody Allen for "Crimes and Misdemeanors", Kenneth Branagh for "Henry V", Jim Sheridan for "My Left Foot", Peter Weir for "Dead Poets Society" Driving Miss Daisy was the most nominated film and the Best Picture winner in 1989 (with nine nominations and four wins), although its director Bruce Beresford was un-nominated and snubbed as Best Director.

[Driving Miss Daisy became the second film since Grand Hotel (1931/2) to win the 'Best Picture' Oscar without a nomination for its director. Wings (1927/28) was the first 'Best Picture' winner that was also not nominated for Best Director.] The heart-tugging, sentimental, low-budget film was an adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about an aging, feisty Southern white widowed grandmother (Tandy) and her complex twenty-five relationship with her simple black chauffeur (Freeman). The plot was based upon Uhry's memories of his grandmother and a family chauffeur. Its four awards included Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay (Alfred Uhry), and Best Makeup. Oscar-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning Alfred Uhry became the first writer to win both awards for the same material. The film's co-producer, Lili Fini Zanuck, was awarded the Best Picture honor - she became the second woman to receive such an honor.

[The first woman in Oscar history to receive an award for co-producing the Best Picture of the year was Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973).] The other four Best Picture nominees were: Best Director-winning Oliver Stone's biography of Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July (with eight nominations and two wins - Best Director and Best Film Editing). This was Stone's second Best Director Oscar - he had won three years earlier for Platoon (1986) Australian director Peter Weir's film about an unorthodox English teacher at a New England prep school, Dead Poets Society (with four nominations and one win - Best Screenplay) director Phil Alden Robinson's own baseball fantasy - a film adaptation of W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield in Field of Dreams (with three nominations and no wins) writer/director Jim Sheridan's low-budget film biography of handicapped, cerebral palsy-afflicted Irish writer/artist Christy Brown, My Left Foot (with five nominations and two wins - Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress) - the first Oscar winner for Miramax.

[It was the first Irish film to win a Best Picture nomination] In the Best Director category, two of the directors of Best-Picture nominated films were neglected: Bruce Beresford for the Best Picture winner Driving Miss Daisy, and Phil Alden Robinson for Field of Dreams . In their places, Woody Allen was nominated for his masterpiece Crimes and Misdemeanors (with three nominations and no wins) - an obvious tribute to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and writer/director/actor Kenneth Branagh was nominated for his audacious and inventive first film Henry V (with three nominations and one win - Best Costume Design). All of the year’s acting winners were first-time winners. British actor Daniel Day-Lewis (with his first nomination) won the Best Actor award, a surprise win, for his performance as Irish-born artist and author Christy Brown - a self-reliant, spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy victim who can only write and draw with his foot, in the British production My Left Foot.

[This was the first of three Best Actor wins for British actors in three consecutive years: Jeremy Irons would win for Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) .] The other nominees for the Best Actor award were: Tom Cruise (with his first nomination) as gung-ho Marine Ron Kovic who does duty in Vietnam and comes home paralyzed in a wheelchair in Born on the Fourth of July - (a second disabled Best Actor candidate) Morgan Freeman (with his second nomination) for his role as Hoke Colburn, Miss Daisy's wise and loyal chauffeur over a twenty-five year period in Driving Miss Daisy writer/director/actor Kenneth Branagh (with his first two nominations as actor and director) as the title character in his own British film Henry V comedian/actor Robin Williams (with his second nomination) as 50s inspiring prep school teacher John Keating in Dead Poets Society Octogenarian Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress award for her performance as wealthy, 72 year-old Atlanta resident and eccentric, cantankerous Jewish matron/matriarch Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Tandy's win set a record at the time - she became the oldest performer (and nominee, at 80 years and 252 days old) to ever win a Best Actress Oscar. She was just three months away from her 81st birthday when she accepted the Oscar (at 80 years and 292 days old).

The other four Best Actress nominees were: Isabelle Adjani (with her second nomination) in the title role as a late 1800s French sculptor (romantically involved with mentor/lover Auguste Rodin) in director Bruno Nuytten's French romantic tragedy Camille Claudel (with two nominations and no wins) Pauline Collins in the title role as a middle-aged British woman who forsakes all during a Greek Isles vacation in director Lewis Gilbert's Shirley Valentine (with two nominations and no wins) Jessica Lange (with her fifth nomination) as defense attorney Ann Talbot who defends her father - accused of Nazi war crime atrocities in director Costa-Gavras' Music Box (the film's sole nomination) Michelle Pfeiffer (with her second nomination) as hard-headed singer/ex-call girl Susie Diamond in writer/director Steve Kloves' directorial debut The Fabulous Baker Boys (with four nominations and no wins) Denzel Washington (with his second nomination and first Oscar win) won the Best Supporting Actor award as Trip, a tough, brave, runaway slave enlisted in the first regimental unit of black troops fighting for the Union in director Edward Zwick's Glory (with five nominations and three wins - Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinemat

ography, and Best Sound).

[Denzel Washington became the second black performer to win the Best Supporting Actor award. Lou Gossett, Jr. was the first - for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

Overall, he was the fourth African-American to win an Oscar, following also after Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier.] The other four Best Supporting Actor nominees were: Danny Aiello (with his first nomination) as Italian-American Sal who runs/owns a pizzeria in the heart of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood - the site of an explosive incident on one long, hot summer day in controversial writer/director/actor Spike Lee's insightful study of race relations, Do the Right Thing (with two nominations and no wins) Dan Aykroyd as Boolie Werthan, Miss Daisy's son who hires her a chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy Marlon Brando (with his eighth nomination) in a cameo role (his first role in nine years) as South African barrister Ian McKenzie in writer/director Euzhan Palcy's anti-apartheid film A Dry White Season (the MGM film was the first full-length feature directed by a black woman) Martin Landau (with his second consecutive nomination) as Judah Rosenthal, a wealthy ophthalmologist who breaks off his relationship with demanding mistress Dolores - Anjelica Huston - and arranges for her murder in director Woody Allen's examination of morality, Crimes and

 Misdemeanors Unknown Irish actress Brenda Fricker (with her first nomination) won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as cantankerous Daniel Day-Lewis' loving and caring mother Mrs.

Brown in My Left Foot. Two co-stars of director Paul Mazursky's adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel Enemies: A Love Story (with a total of three nominations - also Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writers Mazursky and Roger Simon) were nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category: Anjelica Huston (with her second nomination) as the current wife of post-Holocaust survivor Herman Broder Lena Olin (with her first nomination) as Broder's mistress in late 1940s New York, who hid Broder during the war The remaining two Best Supporting Actress nominees were Julia Roberts (with her first nomination) as Shelby Eatenton Latcherie - Sally Field's diabetic daughter and bride-to-be in director Herbert Ross' tearjerker about a group of six southern women who regularly gather in a Louisiana beauty parlor in Steel Magnolias (the film's sole nomination), and Dianne Wiest (with her second nomination) as Helen - a divorced mother with troubled teen children in director Ron Howard's film about parenting, Parenthood (with two nominations and no wins).

And Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, previously nominated only once as Best Director for Ran (1985) (a film with four nominations and one win for Best Costume Design), was presented with an Honorary Award "for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." He was best-known for his films Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), and The Seven Samurai (1954). Oscar Snubs and Omissions: The war epic Glory, about the uncelebrated 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (a black regiment of Union soldiers in the Civil War) was not nominated as Best Picture or for Best Director (Edward Zwick). Also neglected in the cast were Matthew Broderick as young Col. Robert Gould Shaw, and Morgan Freeman as 'elder statesman' Sgt. Major John Rawlins. Actor/director/writer Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was nominated for only two awards - Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Danny Aiello), without a Best Picture or Best Director nod.

Director Tim Burton's box-office smash Batman had only one nomination and win - Best Art Direction, but was un-nominated in other categories: Jack Nicholson in a dual role as the villain: egotistical mobster Jack Napier (and maniacal Joker), and composer Danny Elfman for his musical score. Likewise, one of the most popular romantic comedies of all time, director Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... , also had only one nomination (and lost) - for Nora Ephron's witty screenplay. There were many overlooked components: a Best Director nomination, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the two leads Harry Burns and Sally Albright, and Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher as their best friends Jess and Marie. Although director/actor Kenneth Branagh was nominated as Best Director and Actor for the expressive Shakespearean Henry V - his first directorial effort - he was devoid of a Best Picture nomination. And another neglected picture - director/writer Nancy Savoca's low-budget debut comedy film True Love with Annabella Sciorra as Italian-American Bronx bride Donna ended up without any nominations.

Other worthy, would-be nominees included: Hugh O'Conor for his supporting role as young Christy in My Left Foot John Cusack for his role as Lloyd Dobler in writer/director Cameron Crowe's directorial debut film - the refreshingly-realistic teen romance Say Anything Matt Dillon as drug-addicted Bob in writer/director Gus Van Sant's independent film Drugstore Cowboy (without a single nomination) Andi MacDowell as Ann Mullany and Laura San Giacomo as Cynthia Bishop in writer/director Steven Soderbergh's first film - the kinky, sharply-acted, provocative sex, lies, and videotape (with a single unsuccessful nomination for Best Original Screenplay even though it was the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival) Jennifer Jason Leigh as emotionally unstable Carol in writer/director Matthew Chapman's Heart of Midnight Winona Ryder as independent-thinking Veronica Sawyer in the dark and cynical black comedy about teenage suicide, Heathers J. T.

Walsh as a Hollywood producer in Christopher Guest's movie-business satire The Big Picture Kevin Costner as baseball diamond-building Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella as lead, and both James Earl Jones (as reclusive, disillusioned 1960's writer Terence Mann) and Burt Lancaster (in his last role before his death as Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham) were unnominated for their supporting roles in Field of Dreams And although Anjelica Huston was a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Enemies: A Love Story, she also should have been nominated for her role as Dolores Paley in writer/director Woody Allen's morality play Crimes and Misdemeanors (also without a Best Picture nomination!). ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' 1989 in film? Follow DL on ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' 1989 in film? I'm watching on HDNet Movies the 1989 Oscar-winner for best picture, [italic]Driving Miss Daisy[/italic], which also won best actress for Jessica Tandy, adapted screenplay for Alfred Uhry, and makeup. Looks pretty good, but not necessarily great, in HD.

(Then again, it's not a true 1080p HD broadcast.) Amazing that this film is now 20 years old. I thought 1989 was a great year for films. [bold]What do we all think of [italic]Driving Miss Daisy[/italic]? If you didn't care for it, what other movies from 1989 - like best-picture nominees [italic]Born on the Fourth of July[/italic], [italic]Dead Poets Society[/italic], [italic]Field of Dreams[/italic], and [italic]My Left Foot[/italic] - did you prefer?[/bold] by Anonymous reply 9 12/06/2009 Driving Miss Daisy was definitely the best movie of that bunch, and probably of the year. Dead Poets Society is a very manipulative film; apart from that, Robin Williams is tiresome in this too, and even kind of creepy. Field of Dreams is Americana wankfest, and boring. Born on the 4th of July fails because Tom Cruise sucks the life out of it. The first of his many Magnolia style attempts at 'serious acting'. Blech.

My Left Foot lives off two great performances, but the movie as such is a bit conventional. Great year for acting, though: Jessica Tandy and Isabelle Adjani should have won in a tandem. Both gave amazing performances. by Anonymous reply 1 12/06/2009 Driving Miss Daisy is a masterpiece. It's one of the few films that has little or no plot yet keeps you fascinated for hours. Great supporting performances by Dan Akroyd, Esther Rolle and Patti LuPone. Love Patti's nervous breakdown in the kitchen because there's no coconut for the ambrosia salad. Never fails to make me weep, too. by Anonymous Little know fact...both Lucille Ball and Olivia deHavilland were approached to play Daisy before Jessica Tandy. by Anonymous reply 4 12/06/2009 Thanks R4 - didn't know that. Lucille died in April 1989; I'm not aware of when production ended on "Daisy" but the timing doesn't sound good. by Anonymous reply 5 12/06/2009 Field of Dreams is a great film. Period.

And of the five nominated films that year, it is the one best-remembered and most-viewed. The kid who plays the lead role in My Left Foot as a child was brilliant and deserved a nomination. Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams, and My Left Foot deserve their acclaim. The other two not so much. by Anonymous reply 6 12/06/2009 "Driving Miss Daisy" was a fave of mine. I think both Jessica and Morgan did a stupendous job of acting. I have seen this many times and never get tired of it. "Shindler's List," although very depressing, is also on my best picture list as was "Sam I Am" and...ready for this..."Brokeback Mountain." Flame away DL movie experts! by Anonymous reply 7 12/06/2009 My Left Foot is the only great film in the bunch.

The rest range from tasteful somewhat overproduced adaptation of slight likable play (with killer cast) (Driving Miss Daisy) to sentimental harmlessness (Dead Poet's Society and Field of Dreams) to pure trash (Born on the Fourth of July) by Anonymous This year’s Oscars = 1989: Best Picture director snub, Daniel Day-Lewis win, oldest nominee - Goldderby This year’s Oscars = 1989: Best Picture director snub, Daniel Day-Lewis win, oldest nominee Chris Beachum Feb 9, 2013 11:20 am 1989 marked the last of three times that a movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture without its director earning a nomination. Back then, it was “Driving Miss Daisy” that took the top prize; this year, it looks like “ Argo ” will pull off this Oscar rarity . But that is not the only parallel or tie-in between these two derbies separated by 23 years.

In 1989, Daniel Day-Lewis won his first Best Actor Oscar for “My Left Foot.” He picked up his second in 2007 for “There Will Be Blood” and is all but certain to win a record third lead actor award this year for “ Lincoln ,” a Civil-War themed film with a great Oscar pedigree. In 1989, the Civil War and slavery also dominated “Glory,” a movie that won three Oscars including Best Supporting Actor for Denzel Washington , who is contending for the sixth time this year (“ Flight “). -ADDPREDICTION:85:4:Click to predict Best Picture Oscar:ADDPREDICTION- In 1989, “Driving Miss Daisy” helmer Bruce Beresford was snubbed in the Best Director race.

However, unlike “ Argo ” director Ben Affleck , the Aussie director had not gained traction from any precursor prizes: the National Board of Review chose Kenneth Branagh (“Henry V”); the Gotham critics went with Paul Mazursky (“Enemies: A Love Story”); the LA group honored Spike Lee (“Do the Right Thing”); the National Society of Film Critics voted for Gus Van Sant (“Drugstore Cowboy”); and the Golden Globe went to Oliver Stone (“Born on the Fourth of July”). Stone was the only one of this quintet to reap a Directors Guild bid. He defeated Woody Allen (“Crimes and Misdemeanors”), Rob Reiner (“When Harry Met Sally”), Phil Alden Robinson (“Field of Dreams”), and Peter Weir (“Dead Poets Society”).

The directors branch of the academy nominated Allen, Branagh, Weir, Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot”) and Stone, who picked up a bookend to his 1986 Oscar for helming Best Picture champ “Platoon.” Because only two Best Picture champs — “Wings” ( 1927/1928) and “Grand Hotel” (1931/1932) — had prevailed without directing nods, most pundits did not take “Daisy” seriously when predicting Oscar winners. Heading into the Oscars, “Driving Miss Daisy” had won Best Picture from the National Board of Review and the Globe for Best Comedy/Musical (beating out “The Little Mermaid,” “Shirley Valentine,” “The War of the Roses,” and “When Harry Met Sally”). Of the other four Best Picture contenders, “My Left Foot” took the top prize from the Gotham critics while “Born on the Fourth of July” claimed Best Drama at the Globes. The two big hits of the bunch — “Dead Poets Society” and “Field of Dreams” — had only won over audiences.

The LA critics had gone with “Do the Right Thing” while the National Society had opted for “Drugstore Cowboy.” Although Vietnam War-themed “July” was considered the frontrunner for Best Picture, eight days earlier “Driving Miss Daisy” scribe Alfred Uhry beat Stone and Ron Kovic for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards. The Pulitzer Prize champ went on to win the Oscar as well. While “Daisy” star Jessica Tandy won Best Comedy/Musical Actress at the Globes, Michelle Pfeiffer (“The Fabulous Baker Boys”) had swept the precursors. At the Oscars, Tandy defeated Pfeiffer as well as Isabelle Adjani (“Camille Claudel”), Pauline Collins (“Shirley Valentine”) and Jessica Lange (“Music Box”) to become, at age 80, the oldest lead actress winner to date. The other “Daisy” lead, Morgan Freeman , had racked up victories from the National Board of Review and the Globes. The drama Globe went to Tom Cruise (“Born on the Fourth of July”), while Day-Lewis was the critics darling, picking up support from Los Angeles, New York, and the National Society.

It was a three-horse race at the Oscars with Branagh and Robin Williams (“Dead Poets Society”) rounding out the field. “Daisy” won four of its leading nine Oscar nominations: Best Picture (Richard Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck), Best Actress (Tandy), Best Adapted Screenplay (Uhry), and Best Makeup (Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney, and Manlio Rocchetti). The five losses were for Best Actor (Freeman), Best Supporting Actor (Dan Aykroyd), Best Art Direction (Bruno Rubeo and Crispian Sallis), Best Costume Design (Elizabeth McBride), and Best Editing (Mark Warner). “July” won two of ite eight Oscar races: Directing and Editing. It and “Daisy” were the only Best Picture nominees up for Best Editing. The last movie to win the top Oscar without at least contending for cutting was “Ordinary People” in 1980. “My Left Foot” won two of its Oscar bid: Best Actor (Day-Lewis) and Best Supporting Actress (Brenda Fricker).

OSCAR PARALLELS & TIE-INS (1989 & 2012) DIRECTING SNUB 1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy” wins Best Picture with no directing nod. 2012 – “Argo” is frontrunner for Best Picture with no directing nod. BEST ACTOR 1989 – Day-Lewis wins Best Actor (“My Left Foot”). 2012 – Day-Lewis is frontrunner for Best Actor (“ Lincoln ”). RETURNING NOMINEES 1989 – Day-Lewis, Washington (“Glory”), cinematographer Robert Richardson (“Born on the Fourth of July”), composer John Williams (“Born on the Fourth of July,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”), sound editor Wylie Stateman (“Born on the Fourth of July”) and sound mixer Greg Russell (“Black Rain”). 2012 – Day-Lewis, Washington (“ Flight ”), Richardson (“Django Unchained”), Williams (“Lincoln”), Stateman (“Django Unchained”) and Russell (“Skyfall”). CIVIL WAR THEME 1989 – Major Oscar contender “Glory” (with Best Supporting Actor winner Washington).

2012 – Major Oscar contender “Lincoln” (with Best Supporting Actor frontrunner Tommy Lee Jones ). OLDEST NOMINEE 1989 – Tandy became oldest Best Actress nominee (and winner) at age 80. 2012 – Emmanuelle Riva (“ Amour “) becomes oldest Best Actress nominee at age 85. FRENCH NOMINEE 1989 – Adjani nominated as Best Actress for French language performance. 2012 – Riva nominated as Best Actress for French language performance. DGA DISCONNECT 1989 – Only three DGA nominees (Allen, Stone, Weir) nominated for Best Director Oscar. 2012 – Only two DGA nominees ( Ang Lee , Steven Spielberg ) nominated for Best Director Oscar. PLAYWRIGHTS 1989 – Tony-winning playwright Uhry wins for Best Adapted Screenplay. 2012 – Tony-winning playwright Tony Kushner (“Lincoln”) frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay. VISUAL EFFECTS 1989 – Film set largely on water (“The Abyss”) wins for Best Visual Effects.

2012 – Film set largely on water (“ Life of Pi “) frontrunner for Best Visual Effects. REDHEADED PRINCESS 1989 – Disney film (“The Little Mermaid”) about a fiesty redheaded princess is Oscar nominee (and winner). 2012 – Disney film (“ Brave “) about a feisty redheaded princess is Oscar nominee. KOCH LEGACY 1989 – Former Academy President Howard Koch receives the Hersholt humanitarian award. 2012 – Koch’s son Hawk Koch is the newly elected Academy President. ROOKIE HOSTS 1989 – Oscar ceremony hosted by first-timer Billy Crystal (with rookie producer Gil Cates). 2012 – Oscar ceremony hosted by first-timer Seth MacFarlane (with rookie producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan). NAMES TO REMEMBER Jessica Tandy - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that course of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty.

She was born Jessie Alice Tandy in London in 1909, the daughter of Jessie ... See full bio » Born: a list of 49 people created 06 Dec 2011 a list of 27 people created 04 Feb 2013 a list of 29 people created 25 Apr 2014 a list of 35 people created 02 Sep 2014 a list of 26 images created 11 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Jessica Tandy's work have you seen? User Polls Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 13 nominations. See more awards » Known For 1991 The Story Lady (TV Movie) Grace McQueen 1981 The Gin Game (TV Movie) Fonsia Dorsey 1972 The F.B.I. (TV Series) Ardyth Nolan 1972 O'Hara, U.S.

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(TV Series) 1975 Bicentennial Minutes (TV Series short) Herself 1967 Dateline: Hollywood (TV Series) Herself 1962 Here's Hollywood (TV Series) Herself Herself / The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' / Herself - Actress - Episode #12.34 (1959) ... The Public in a scene from 'A Pound on Demand' 1958 Person to Person (TV Series documentary) Herself 1950 Showtime, U.S.A. (TV Series) Herself 1995 Inside the White House (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) 1994 100 Years at the Movies (TV Short documentary) Herself 1992 Oscar's Greatest Moments (Video documentary) Herself Personal Details Other Works: She acted in Edward Albee's play, "A Delicate Balance," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Hume Cronyn in the cast.

See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Biographical Movie | 1 Print Biography | 2 Interviews | 4 Articles | 1 Pictorial | 1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more » Height: Did You Know? Personal Quote: [About her contract with Fox in the 40s] I think things were much more stereotyped then. You either were a sex symbol, or a beautiful woman, which I wasn't, or you got the dregs of the parts, not the interesting ones. I'd been playing large parts in the theater for a long time, being the whole cheese in a lot of plays, and I wanted to do more in films than I was offered. But Hume was working out ... See more » Trivia: 1990: She and husband Hume Cronyn were both awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

See more » Star Sign: Driving Miss Daisy (1989): Well Acted by Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, Oscar Winner is Middling Medlodrama | Emanuel Levy Driving Miss Daisy (1989): Well Acted by Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, Oscar Winner is Middling Medlodrama December 22, 2006 by EmanuelLevy Leave a Comment A middlebrow, mildly entertaining adaptation of Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a simple black man (Morgan Freeman), who’s hired as chauffeur for a cantankerous old Southern woman (Jessica Tandy), and winds up being her most loyal companion The film, directed by Bruce Beresford in a smooth but undistinguished style, benefits from the likable performances by the two leads. Dan Aykroyd is cast in an unusual “straight” role as Daisy’s son, though you can never quite forget who’s playing the part. The film received nine nominations, winning four: Best Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, and Makeup. Driving Miss Daisy had no violence and no sex–it was a middlebrow movie about virtues and decent values.

The film’s low budget ($7.5 million), and the fact that it was made without big-name stars, commanded the Academy members’ attention. Producer Zanuck observed after winning: “Anything that tugs at your heart and emotions has a good chance for the Best Picture.” Detailed Plot Jessica Tandy is perfectly cast as Mrs. (“Miss”) Daisy Werthan, a wealthy Jewish widowed school teacher, now 73, who lives in Atlanta, with her African American housemaid Idella (Esther Rolle). When Miss Daisy wrecks her car, her son Boolie (Aykroyd) hires Hoke Coleburn (Morgan Freeman), an African American chauffeur who drove for a local judge until the latter had died. At first, she refuses to let Hoke drive her, but gradually starts to accept him. When Miss Daisy finds out that Hoke is illiterate, she teaches him how to read. Soon Miss Daisy begins to appreciate his many skills and the two become friends. After Idella dies in 1963, rather than hire a new maid, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and cook her own meals. Hoke assists with the cooking and the two plant a vegetable garden.

The film explores racism against African Americans, but when Diasy’s synagogue is bombed, Miss Daisy realizes that she is also a victim of prejudice. Meanwhile, American society is going through radical changes, and Miss Daisy attends a dinner at which Dr. Martin Luther King gives a lecture. She invites Boolie to the dinner, but he declines, and suggests that Miss Daisy invite Hoke. However, Miss Daisy only asks him to be her guest during the car ride to the event and ends up attending the dinner alone. Hoke is insulted by the mode of her invitation, listening to the speech on the car radio outside. In 1971, Miss Daisy showing signs of dementia; with Hoke at her side, she feels he is her only reliable friend. Boolie arranges for Miss Daisy to enter a retirement home. Boolie and Hoke drive to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, who’s now 97. As Hoke reminisces about their years together, his car is seen driving into the distance.

'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy - NYTimes.com 'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy By ROBERT REINHOLD, Special to The New York Times Published: March 27, 1990 LOS ANGELES, March 26— ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' a sentimental film about the relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish widow and her black chauffeur, won four Oscars tonight, including best picture of 1989 and best actress, in an Academy Awards presentation that offered many surprises and odd contradictions but few clear clues to trends in film. No single film dominated the 62d annual awards, as has often happened in past years. And the film considered one of the heavy favorites to win best picture, ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' the story of a paraplegic Vietnam veteran's passage into the antiwar movement, won only two Oscars, for best director for Oliver Stone and for film editing. Bruce Beresford, the director of ''Miss Daisy,'' was not even nominated.

But the film gave Jessica Tandy, the 80-year-old stage actress, the chance to win her first Oscar in six decades as a performer. There was also an Oscar for Alfred Uhry for his screenplay for ''Miss Daisy,'' which he adapted from his Pulitzer Prise-winning Off-Broadway play. It was also a satisfying night for the makers of ''My Left Foot,'' the wrenching film about the Irish painter and writer Christy Brown, who suffered from cerebral palsy. The award for best actor went to the British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, for his performance as Brown. Brenda Fricker, the Irish actress, won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Brown's mother. And there was glory, too, for ''Glory,'' the Civil War epic about a black regiment fighting on the Union side. It won three awards, including best supporting actor for Denzel Washington, his first Oscar. It was thus a diffused and surprising evening with no clearly dominant winners. Mr.

Day-Lewis, who beat out the early favorite for best actor, Tom Cruise, in ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' used his victory to issue a plea for better treatment of the disabled and acknowledged that some disabled actors resented his taking the role. ''But due to the hypocrisy of financing, this film could never be made with a disabled actor,'' he said backstage after the awards. ''I very selfishly decided to put my name on it.'' In accepting, the actor said that when the artist was alive he needed very little encouragement to make his voice heard. ''I'm truly grateful to you for honoring me with this award,'' he said. None were more delighted than Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, producers of ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' which was rejected by all major studios at first. Mis Tandy, the 80-year-old stage actress, had never been nominated for an Oscar before. ''I never expected in a million years I'd ever be in this position,'' Miss Tandy said. She was the oldest person ever to win an Oscar. The film, adapted from Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, portrayed the slowly evolving relationship between the widow and her black chauffeur, played by Morgan Freeman.

In accepting, Miss Tandy thanked the Zanucks, the producers of the film, which had repeatedly been rejected by major studios. In an especially pointed mention, she gave special thanks to her director, Bruce Beresford, who was not nominated for best director even though ''Miss Daisy'' received nine nominations, including one for best picture. Washington for 'Glory' For his powerful performance as a mistreated runaway slave serving in a black Civil War regiment in the film ''Glory,'' Mr. Washington won his first Oscar, as best supporting actor. The award to the young black actor came as something of a surprise in a category that included strong performances by Danny Aiello as the white owner of a pizza parlor in a black neighborhood of Brooklyn in ''Do the Right Thing'' and Dan Aykroyd as Miss Tandy's son in ''Driving Miss Daisy.'' In accepting the award, Mr. Washington cited with pride the role of black soldiers who fought, largely unsung, on the Union side. ''I'd like to pay homage to the 54th, the black soldiers who helped to make this country free,'' he said. Even he, he conceded backstage, had been ignorant of this page of American history.

''I was stunned this history was not taught,''he said. Ms. Fricker, who had never been nominated for an Oscar before, won over strong performances by Anjelica Huston in ''Enemies: A Love Story'' and Julia Roberts in ''Steel Magnolias.'' She seemed flustered by the award. ''I'd like to thank Christy Brown just for being alive,'' she said in accepting, telling reporters later backstage that ''I'm the only person in the world who claims never to have met him.'' Tonight's event, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center, was broadcast either live or delayed to nearly 100 countries. In an innovation this year, six awards were presented in five foreign film capitals: London, Moscow, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Sydney, Australia. For example, Jack Lemmon and the Russian actress Natalya Negoda presented the award for best foreign film from Moscow. But all the recipients were in Los Angeles. Movie-House Dreams That award went to the film considered the front-runner, Italy's ''Cinema Paradiso,'' directed by Guiseppee Tornatore, a story of a young boy and his fascination with the films he sees in his small village movie house.

1 How 'Driving Miss Daisy' Became One of the Most Scorned Best Picture Winners Ever How 'Driving Miss Daisy' Became One of the Most Scorned Best Picture Winners Ever Yahoo Movies• Share Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ “When Driving Miss Motherf—-ing Daisy won Best Picture, that hurt,” director Spike Lee told New York Magazine in 2008. “[But] no one’s talking about Driving Miss Daisy now.” The filmmaker is hardly alone in his disdain for Bruce Beresford’s 1989 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. And in fact, the few discussions that Daisy inspires nowadays often begin — or end — with a question: Was this the worst Best Picture selection ever made? The choice caused controversy and skepticism even at the time, with the New York Times asking if the film had a “subtext that summons up a longing for the good old days before the civil rights movement.” And in the 25 years since it was released on Dec. 13, 1989, Daisy’s reputation has hardly improved. So how did the divisive little movie manage to win the most prestigious prize in cinema?

And does it deserve the scorn it continues to attract today? To its producers, Daisy probably didn’t seem like a magnet for controversy: Alfred Uhry’s play, the source material for the movie, debuted off-Broadway in April 1987. Centering on the decades-long relationship between a wealthy, white Southern woman named Daisy and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke, it would run for nearly three years, and win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988. But Cocoon producers Richard and Lili Zanuck were well ahead of the curve, buying the movie rights almost as soon as the first reviews hit. Studios were resistant , but eventually the Zanucks persuaded Warner Bros. to green-light the picture. Australian helmer Beresford — who’d recently come off such critically acclaimed dramas as Tender Mercies and Crimes of the Heart — was picked to direct, with Morgan Freeman reprising the role he originated on stage, and veteran actress Jessica Tandy stepping in as Daisy.

For the most part, Beresford’s film was warmly received by mainstream critics, with Roger Ebert calling it “a film of great love and patience.” The good notices set the path for Oscar success: At the ceremony in 1989, it won four prizes, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Tandy. The film had soft competition in the Best Picture race that year: Its rivals included similarly middlebrow crowd-pleasers like Field Of Dreams and Dead Poets Society. But among the films that missed out were Lee’s firebrand drama Do The Right Thing (which presenter Kim Basinger praised as telling “the biggest truth of all” from the Oscar stage) and Steven Soderbergh’s indie sensation Sex Lies & Videotape. This was a Hollywood in transition, stuck between safer 1980s fare and the Sundance fueled revivals of the 1990s that would come with the arrival of Tarantino & Co. just a few years later. Whereas Lee and Soderbergh’s works were blunt-force objects — tackling race and sex head-on — Daisy was decidedly restrained.

In fairness, it has its moments of complexity, most notably in the film’s best scene, as Hoke attacks his employer’s hypocrisy over not inviting him to attend a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. But on the whole, it’s a soft-focus, mostly unchallenging Stanley Kramer-esque take on race relations with a simplistic and rose-tinted view of the past, one that rarely lets Freeman or the other Africa-American actors break out of stereotype. Quite rightly, the African-American community was skeptical of Daisy: Public Enemy attacked the movie on the track “Burn Hollywood Burn,” and the film was skewered more than once on hit TV comedy In Living Color. But it was Lee who led the attack: “[Freeman] still plays a subservient role,” the filmmaker told Jet .

“The clock is being turned backwards.” (At the time, the Freeman denied that he was “evoking nostalgia” with the movie, but would later call the film “a mistake” that led to him being typecast as “noble, wise, dignified.”) Read More Driving Miss Daisy certainly isn’t a great movie: It’s notably lacking in style; Beresford leans on sentimentality too often; the African-American characters are mostly caricatures; and Hans Zimmer’s synth score sounds woefully dated. But it is well-meaning, and that quality may have been the key to its awards-season success. The Academy Awards have always been a flawed system, but the 1970s and 1980s had seen challenging pictures like The Godfather, The Deer Hunter and Platoon take the top prize. By the time of Daisy’s arrival, though, the tide began to turn, with an emphasis on feel-good, big-message movies.

Driving Miss Daisy can be seen as a precursor to the kind of comforting, uplift-above-all-else, self-congratulatory Best Picture winners that were to come, when Dances With Wolves could beat Goodfellas, Forrest Gump defeat Pulp Fiction, and Crash win out over Brokeback Mountain. There had been curious choices for Best Picture before, but Driving Miss Daisy's win arguably stands as the moment when voters began to pick symbolic choices over true cinematic classics. So Daisy's poor reputation remains intact — in part because of its own flaws, and in part because of the high-minded, low-risk movies that came in its wake. Watch a trailer for Driving Miss Daisy: Photo credits: Everett Best Actress Oscar Winner: 1989 | Jessica Tandy - YouTube Best Actress Oscar Winner: 1989 | Jessica Tandy Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 13, 2014 The Oscar race for the Best Actress of 1989.

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Question: Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for the 1989 film 'Driving Miss Daisy'?
Answer: JESSICA TANDY